Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Dutch public broadcasting system (Dutch: Nederlands publiek omroepbestel) is a group of organizations that are responsible for public service television and radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. It is composed of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) foundation, which acts as its governing body, and a number of public broadcasters.
A speaking clock or talking clock is a live or recorded human voice service, usually accessed by telephone, that gives the correct time. The first telephone speaking clock service was introduced in France, in association with the Paris Observatory, on 14 February 1933. [1] The format of the service is similar to that of radio time signal services.
Dutch TV listings magazines invariably use 24-hour notation In written language , time is expressed in the 24-hour notation , with or without leading zero , using a full stop or colon as a separator, sometimes followed by the word uur (hour) or its abbreviation u. – for example, 22.51 uur , 9.12 u. , or 09:12 .
[citation needed] The BBC website uses the 24-hour clock for its TV and radio programme listings, [citation needed] while BBC promotions for upcoming programmes give their times according to the 12-hour clock. Punctuation and spacing styles differ, even within English-speaking countries (6:30 p.m., 6:30 pm, 6:30 PM, 6.30pm, etc.). [citation needed]
While a mean time was proposed as early as 1835, the first law relating to a standardised time zone was the Telegraph Act of 1852, which stipulated that the national telegraph service adjust the clocks in its offices to "the central time of Amsterdam", which would later become known as "Amsterdam Time" (Dutch: Amsterdamse Tijd ) the mean time ...
BELGIUM (VRT): VRT Radio 1, VRT Radio 2, Studio Brussel, Klara, NMN. GREAT BRITAIN (BBC): BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4. GERMANY: Deutsche Welle. Other local Dutch commercial stations and public stations from across Europe are available along with a selection of themed music channels.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
NTR is a Dutch public-service broadcaster, supplying television and radio programming of an informational, educational, and cultural nature to the national public broadcasting system, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO). NTR was created in 2010, following the merger of the Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) and two educational broadcasters ...